I got my first issue of Poets & Writers on Monday. The March/April issue. I was pleasantly surprised not only by how fast they were on processing my subscription, but on the magazine. It's not (or at least this issue is not) a full color glossy magazine like Writer's Digest, but who needs glossy color? The pages are glossy, but most are black and white with a few color pages of advertisements in the middle of it. The inside front and back covers are glossy color, but the front and back are non-glossy (kind of a matte finish?) and have bits of color on them rather than the whole thing being colorized.
It as a whole makes me think that the magazine takes writing as seriously as the writers that subscribe to it and I have not yet had the time to read any of the articles.
It is also a LOT bigger than I was expecting for the price. 168 pages. If this issue is representative of most issues I will be subscribing to Poets & Writers for a lot of years to come. They are a bi-monthly, but seem to offer as much as Writer's Digest for a more reasonable subscription price. Shame I am not into poetry. On glancing through the magazine a good percent of it is, of course, dedicated to the mechanics of poetry, just as the remainder is to the mechanics of writing.
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